• UCLA Library Data Archives
• The role of data in your research
• How to search for and acess data for research
• Resources, tools and support available to students at UCLA
• Publishing and Data Management Plans

• Formerly Social Science Data Archives
• On the UCLA campus since 1961 About the Data Archive
• Available to all UCLA faculty and students
• Holdings include public opinion polls, census data, crime stats, political and social behavior, etc.
  

https://www.library.ucla.edu/location/social-science-data-archive

• Reference: assist students to find and use data
• Data Management Plans
• Metadata
• Provide training: Software/Library carpentry / Software Carpentry R-language
  
• Host events and lectures: Data Archive News and Upcoming Events

illustration: Role of Data in Research

• UCLA Library Data Archive
• Colleagues
• Public media (newspapers, news)
• Social media (twitter, etc)
• Scholarly literature
• Government reports and documents
• Archives and project websites
• Codebooks, questionnaires
• Exploration of datasets

• General to specific; broad to narrow
• Names of investigators; names of studies
• Studies described in literature, news and websites
  

• Raw data are not eye-readable
• To decipher data you will use Questionnaires and Codebooks

illustration: Raw Data

• A questionnaire is a research instrument consisting of a series of questions and other prompts for the purpose of gathering information from respondents.

• Questionnaires cover separate topics such as:
  • Preferences (e.g. political party)
  • Behaviors (e.g. food consumption)
  • Facts (e.g. gender)
• Questionnaires can include indexes or scales:
  • Latent traits (e.g. personality traits)
  • Attitudes (e.g. towards immigration)
  • An index (e.g. Social Economic Status)

illustration: ABC News Poll

illustration: General Social Survey

illustration: Raw data and codebook

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research http://www.icpsr.umich.edu

illustration: ICPSR

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR

illustration: ICPSR Register

illustration: ICPSR Search by Topics

illustration: ICPSR Search for and Compare Variables

illustration: ICPSR Compare Variables

illustration: ICPSR Study Page and Data

illustration: ICPSR Reading About Data

illustration: ICPSR Publications linked to Data

illustration: ICPSR Publications Linked to Data

• ICPSR: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/
• UCLA Library Data Archive Catalog: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/ssda_ucla
• Government Sites, Census Data: https://www.census.gov/
• IPUMS (Integrated Public Use Microdata Series): https://www.ipums.org/
• Public Policy Institute of CA: www.ppic.org
• NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research): http://www.nber.org/data/
• CDC/NCHS (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Center for Health Statistics): https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/surveys.htm
• Pew Research Center: http://www.pewresearch.org/
• Data.gov: https://www.data.gov/

• What is a Data Management Plans
• Why do I need this?
• What tools are available to help?

A data management plan is a document that describes what you will do with your data during your research and after you complete your research.

• Funding Agencies
• Publishing https://dataden.library.ucla.edu/jspui/ ORCID:https://orcid.org/
• Sharing and Archiving Data
• Regardless of the requirements, good data management is an essential skill for researchers.

• Data Archive
• ICPSR

illustration: Questions

The Data Archive is here to help

1120-H Rolfe
ucla-data-archive@googlegroups.com
310-825-0716

Tim Dennis, Director of the Data Archive
Jamie Jamison, Archive Staff